Album Notes

bryannoll has been working with Laughing Lotus Yoga Center in NYC since mid 2006, providing music for their Midnight Yoga classes with instructors Edward Vilga (edwardvilga.com) and Mary Dana Abbott. Bryan uses his guitar, along with various electronic devices and software to create soundscapes and grooves that interact with the flow of the instructor and the room.

Yoga 01 contains a one-hour session recorded in January 2007's Midnight Yoga Class with Edward Vilga. The music starts with a wordless chant. This mantra repeats and continues throughout as elements swell and fade. Rhythms are introduced at certain intervals to propel the listener. The intensity eventually peaks and comes to rest in a final Savasana meditation.

'Sound and colour are one, they are two aspects of life. Life and light are one. Life is light, and light is life, and so colour is sound, and sound is colour. But where sound is colour it is most visible and least audible, and where colour is sound it is most audible and least visible. You can find the unity of colour and sound by studying and practicing the science of the culture of breath.'

-Hazrat Inayat Khan (The Mysticism of Sound and Music)